Norfolk jacket
Noun
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Noun
Norfolk jacket (plural Norfolk jackets)
- A loose, belted, single-breasted jacket with box pleats on the back and front.
- 1864, Arthur Walker, The Rifle: Its Theory and Practice, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, Concluding Lecture, p. 309,
- Perhaps […] a patrol-jacket like that of the Foot Chasseurs, or similar to what English sportsmen know as the Norfolk jacket […] will prove most conducive to the comfort, efficiency, and even the appearance of the rifleman of the future.
- 1915, Emma Orczy, A Bride of the Plains, New York: George H. Doran, Chapter 19, p. 174,
- […] she pointed to a parcel which was causing the pocket of his well-cut Norfolk jacket to bulge immoderately.
- 1955, C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, Chapter 13,
- He walked straight across to it, picked an apple, and put it in the breast pocket of his Norfolk jacket.
- 1864, Arthur Walker, The Rifle: Its Theory and Practice, Westminster: J.B. Nichols, Concluding Lecture, p. 309,
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